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In answer to an invitation from Lord Townshend to visit him in London, Tucker wrote on 5 April 1752 that he would probably make the trip the following winter ‘if I can finish a task which is now set me; viz. to write a treatise upon the principles of commerce for the use of the Prince of Wales, and to be entitled, The Elements of Commerce and Theory of Taxes’.1 This is the first reference to a project which never came to fruition.
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Notes
Josiah Tucker, Four Tracts together with Two Sermons on Political and Commercial Subjects (Gloucester, 1774) pp. ix–xi.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. Edwin Cannan (New York, 1937) p. 14.
Josiah Tucker, Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects, 3rd edn (Gloucester, 1776) p. vii.
W. E. Clark, Josiah Tucker, Economist (New York, 1903) p. 67.
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Shelton, G. (1981). The ‘Great Work’. In: Dean Tucker and Eighteenth-Century Economic and Political Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16503-2_6
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